Notices by a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) (rakslice@mastodon.social)

@thomasfuchs @hbons @verge fundamentally the bigger mystery to me is how this fully opinionated distro is supposedly gonna be the pro "rugged individualism" choice, like it's a good grift if you can get it i guess

@thomasfuchs @hbons @verge yeah, how should i put this, i think this thing has become a magnet for a bunch of say like minded chudividuals to contribute in their personal capacity in a way that doesn't get their affiliated giant companies with hr departments involved, but the 1password guys just missed the memo and had corporate cut a check

@thomasfuchs ah, so it's geofenced

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rakslice/117187021696587514

can somebody accessing regular google maps from within the US confirm what it shows rn

RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/117004691842978242

tl;dr: _this_ is what Flock is for

the purpose of a system is what it does

just thinking about how the mac has never gotten touchscreens until potentially soon: there is probably a sort of ios bubble of people whose job depends on never admitting that the modern smartphone touch screen interface is an ever-worsening ux disaster that many don't like and especially don't want near their computer; up to now those outside of it have managed to frame keeping it somewhat away from the mac as a hardware support issue

@thomasfuchs oh yeah, zorin... as a bonus for signing up to the cartel right now, you'll receive a complimentary not getting dropped into san francisco bay from the company zeppelin

lol, what did that take, a whole couple of months?

honestly the $100 million training minimum feels like somebody literally riffing on the old line: 'But for de big stealing dey puts yo' picture in de paper and yo' statue in de Hall of Fame when you croaks!'

https://archive.fo/20260411130613/https://www.wired.com/story/openai-backs-bill-exempt-ai-firms-model-harm-lawsuits/

The wild thing about firefox isn't that its weird corporate "non-profit" org has gone fully bad decisions mode, it's that it's so riddled with bugs from 10 years ago there's basically no reason to use it except for the stance that that org is dismantling https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1136796

To be fair this beaverton story that jwz picked up is just ha-ha-only-serious at this point
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/03/ai-job-losses-free-up-time-for-unemployed-mobs-to-burn-down-tech-ceos-houses/

The bill presupposes that there is an "account holder" who is over 18, but the implication from the term that the account holder holds an account is not referenced in the definition or otherwise described.

LB: fwiw i think what people are worried about is the currently proposed california ab 1043, but the bill they've got is an ill conceived ill fitting house of cards that is probably not going to go anywhere other than being quietly withdrawn after sufficient ridicule

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

The age bucket of the user has to be available to any "covered application store" used, which is defined in a way that includes any random internet website you download software from

If somebody implemented this with even the age of the "account holder" self-reported, it's unclear to me if that would be non-compliant in some way

In practice whatever age verification that implies is the only potential actual verification here, but that is not otherwise described; the age of the actual user, which is required to be given at "account setup" and which the age bucket flags reported are based on, is not required to be otherwise verified

And how does an API some party is required to provide know the purpose the information it provides is going to be used for?

etc.

I just stopped reading

this thing is a basic editing fail

I wouldn't have even commented about it if it wasn't for the open source community around here starting to fret about it

The bill keeps using language like:

'An operating system provider shall do all of the following:
[...]
(3) Send only the minimum amount of information necessary to comply with this title and shall not share the digital signal information with a third party for a purpose not required by this title."

There is no purpose of the information stated anywhere in the bill

@thomasfuchs lol, this is like a hanlon's razor corollary that keeps coming to me in lots of different ways: never attribute to scruples what can be explained by inconvenience

It is kind of funny that we seem to have leapfrogged directly into the worst part of government by event futures shitheads

of course https://www.theverge.com/tech/887040/polymarket-iran-war-betting-invaluable